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CrossCheck from CrossRef- Antiplagiarism Software on Their Authors
by Shalini Urs 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

Here is a very interesting and potentially useful tool for strengthening scholarship. CrossRef, a publishing industry association, and the software company iParadigms announced a deal this week to create CrossCheck, an antiplagiarism program for academic journals. For details see the Chronicle of Higher Education story at <http://chronicle.com/free/2008/04/2546n.htm> http://chronicle.com/free/2008/04/2546n.htm. One of the obstacles that I have come across - in ETD movement in India is the issue of plagiarism. Such software solutions should help us combat this obstacle to ETD /Open Access movements. Shalini Dr. Shalini Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore - 570006 Phone : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 ISiM - new age school for the knowledge economy www.isim.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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TERI Library, New Delhi, requires Information Assistant
by N Deepa 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

TERI Library, New Delhi, requires Information Assistant Key Responsibility Areas: Circulation, Shelving, Binding, System generated daily reminders, Reference service Desired Skills: Excellent communication skills in written and oral, Knowledge of library software and experience in computerization / Digitization of library; should be a proactive service provider & a good team player. Required Qualification: Diploma or Degree in library science with minimum two/three years experience in similar field. Male candidates are encouraged to apply. Those with required background and qualifications may email their resume with a 1000 word essay explaining why you think you are suitable for this position. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Last Date: April 30, 2008 Email: infodesk(a)teri.res.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Promoting books and reading
by Rajan 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Dear All, As Mr Singh rightly pointed out, the problem lies certainly somewhere else. If good books are there in libraries, users will certainly visit and use the library even without much promotion. The best seller book The Google Story - a must read for librarians- will tell you that a useful product - like Google - needed no advertisement at all. This lesson is applicable to libraries too.Good library collection will get readers, if other enabling factors are there at work. So the need is to create an enabling factor. Developing a useful collection is not an easy task. It requires a lot of work, in finding out, choosing the right one, assigning priority in purchase and all that. It lead us again to the discussion on librarians role in building book collection, which we had discussed a bit as per Dr Saheb's query.Unless we become good designers of libraries in many aspects including book collection, we cannot make it useful. This topic requires further discussion, it seems. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India Email rajankila(a)gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Original Message: Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:05:17 +0530 From: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Promoting reading habits To: "Parinita Samant" <parinitas(a)hexaware.com> Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, binu david <binudavid(a)indiainfo.com> Message-ID: <c13c85220804230135q40b3ec1do358e05bf64eb3413(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 But aren't we trying to reinvent the Wheel? Let us go back to our science. Read and Understand the Second Law: Better Buy a Copy and keep it on your table. I don't have to tell you the title. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1220/ Also remember the Second Law comes Before Third Law. The problem lies somewhere else. Poor students!! Always at receiving end!!. One question? Who told them to read SMSes? Second Question? Who told them to Google? Answer = IF SOMETHING IS USEFUL, IT WILL BE USED!! So if the Library collection is useful, it will be used. Put your useful books in Seven Locks, people will still ask for it. Don't you observe it daily in your library? Sorry, the problem lies somewhere else. Do you still want to know the problem? --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CFP - ICADL 2008 Bali, Indonesia, Dec 2-5,2008
by Shalini Urs 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

************************************************************************ **** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ************************************************************************ **** Call for Papers The 11th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2008) http://icadl2008.org/ Bali, Indonesia December 2-5, 2008 The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the series of LNCS. See the LNCS Authors Instructions page (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) Online Submission: http://icadl08.cs.waikato.ac.nz/openconf/openconf.php The annual International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL) series is a significant forum for digital libraries research, providing an opportunity for researchers, educators, and practitioners to share their experiences. The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), initiated in 1998 and rotated among Asian-Pacific countries, has become one of the premiere meetings in digital library. Since its humble beginning in Hong Kong (ICADL 1998), the meeting has been held in Taipei, Taiwan (ICADL 1999); Seoul, Korea (ICADL 2000); Bangalore, India (ICADL 2001); Singapore (ICADL 2002); Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (ICADL 2003); Shanghai, China (ICADL 2004); Bangkok, Thailand (ICADL 2005); Kyoto, Japan (ICADL 2006); and Hanoi, Vietnam (ICADL 2007). ICADL welcomes submissions from a variety of perspectives-previous conferences in this series have included presentations from computer science, library and information science, knowledge management, and areas in the social sciences and humanities. We particularly welcome submissions associated with the ICADL 2008 theme, Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information. With this theme, the digital libraries community can reflect on its progress towards supporting people in finding and using the information that they need. ICADL 2008 will be held in Bali Island - Indonesia, a world renowned travel destination with exotic nature and exquisite culture. Bali has been in many of Conde Nast Traveller's lists of tourist destinations over the years. It specifically mentions on its website that Bali "offers an extraordinary caliber of luxury accommodation" Submissions may include research, system evaluation, digital library infrastructure and architecture, case studies, social and institutional policy issues, and position papers. Topics include, but are not limited to : Mobile services Digital preservation and archives Interoperability issues Content and knowledge management Information retrieval Information seeking and use Intellectual property Data and information mining Collection development and management User communities Interface and interaction design Security and privacy Multimedia digital libraries Multi-language support Digital libraries in education Document genres and categorization Social media / Web 2.0 Metadata and cataloguing Sustainability in digital libraries Open Source tools and systems Information filtering Grid architectures Important Dates : Submission of Full Papers : 22 June 2008 Notification to Authors : 22 August 2008 Contact: Kalarensi Naibaho, E-mail: info(a)icadl2008.org, (or cnaibaho(a)yahoo.com) Organizing Committee: General Chair : Zainal Hasibuan (University of Indonesia, Indonesia) Vice Chair : Liauw Toong Tjiek/Aditya Nugraha (Petra Christian University, Indonesia) Program Co-Chairs : Sally Jo Cunningham (University of Waikato, New Zealand) Rolly Intan (Petra Christian University, Indonesia) George Buchanan (Swansea University, UK) Edna Reid (Clarion University, USA) Tutorial Chairs : Mohammad Aries (University of Indonesia, Indonesia) Publication Co-Chairs : Rolly Intan (Petra Christian University, Indonesia) Publicity Co-Chairs : Henny Widyaningsih (University of Indonesia, Indonesia) Anita Nusantari (Petra Christian University, Indonesia) Local Arrangement Chair : Kalarensi Naibaho (University of Indonesia, Indonesia) Adi Wibowo (Petra Christian University, Indonesia) ---- Shalini ICADL Steering Committee, Vice-Chair Dr. Shalini Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore - 570006 Phone : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 ISiM - new age school for the knowledge economy www.isim.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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promoting reading habit - organising journal clubs
by Kumaravel C 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

This is response to the optimum use of journals subscribed.This is a problem not unique to any particular college alone.To satisify the norms of the councils like MCI, PCI, AICTE, DCI, INC and various other councils, the libraries are forced to subscribe to journalsinspite of the shrinking budget.Apart from routing of journals to the particular college/depts.,we organize 'Journal Club' where a student from everycollege/department has to present a paper from the latest journal issueon a particular day of a week.Again the initiative has to come from the concerned department headand a faculty will monitor the session.  This method seems to have a double impact wherein the student and the faculty are forced to gothrough the  latest journal articles.Kumaravel.CSr.Librarian,MTIHS,Puducherry. Kumaravel.C -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Promoting reading habits
by Pandurang Shendage 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Dear David, Mr. Das has suggested very relevant techniques for promoting reading habits of library users. I want add some. 1. We should present information sources by organizing exhibitions, Programs in the library. 2. We can arrange some quiz/contest regarding search of information and put some sort of gifts as convenient. 3. We can identify best users form faculty side and from student side and put some awards for motivation purpose. Best User Award 4. If possible arrange a program of free distribution of some general periodicals for attracting users to library. Periodical back issues, which we are not binding. 5. Arrange all magazines as per user convenience. If possible keep all magazines near the entrance of library. 6.We should communicate with users, try to understand their needs. We should not wait for them. Take the initiative. Get the right article, find the right user and give it on right time. Generally we are trying a lot. Success is depend on how users are taking it only thing is we should think positively and maintain our interest towards providing better services. Thanks, Pandurang Shendage On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 library_vcil wrote : >Dear David, > >I can suggest the followings for increasing the reading habit : >1. You can send the Current Title Service to all the Engg. student if you >the facilities to do so. >2. You can also make some sort of Gist / Synopsis service for interesting >articles. >3. You can also make phone/sms type of service to the respect faculty for >the respective journals >4. You can have a systematic study about the users' need and accordingly >you can suggest them some readings from the journals. >5. I don't know, if you have some sort of recreational / political >Magazines in your collection. If it not there, you may add some >recreational Magazine which will attract the user and ultimately when they >will find some good articles in the Engg. journals, they may have the chance >to read those. It is just like some kind of browsing facilities in a >different way. >6. You can study the students behavioural interest and what type of project >they are going to do, you can find out that type of articles and can inform >to the respective students. > >Regards, >Pradip Das >================================================= >Pradip Das. M. Phil, ADIS/DRTC, B. Sc. (Chem.) >Sr. Librarian / TPM & Training Co-ordinator, >Pidilite Industries Limited, >A/21, MIDC, Mahad, Maharashtra - 402309. India. >Ph. : 02145- 31444(R), 02145 - 232043 to 46 (Off.) Extn. : 226 >Fax. : 01245 - 232048 >Mobile : 09420836138 >E-mail : librarymahad(a)pidilite.co.in >or, pradipbhadreswardas(a)gmail.com >Web : www.pidilite.com >================================================ >----- Original Message ----- > From: "binu david" <binudavid(a)indiainfo.com> >To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> >Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:12 PM >Subject: [LIS-Forum] Promoting reading habits > > > > Dear Friends > > > > I am a Librarian with a self financing engineering college(only > > BTech/BE) in Kerala. Our library subscribes to around 80 print > > periodicals in the area of engineering and allied subjects. To > > promote reading habits of periodicals among students and faculty > > we have taken initiate like user education, current awareness etc. > > But the response to these initiatives are meagre. Yearly we are > > spending around 2 lakh on periodicals. So i need some valuable > > suggestions from my colleague's in promoting reading habits of our > > periodicals in optimum. > > > > Hope soon I will receive a lot of suggestion from you people. > > > > Thanking you > > > > Sincerely > > > > Binu David > > Librarian > > N J College of Engineering > > Pothandi > > Palghat > > > > > > -- > > ______________________________________________ > > IndiaInfo Mail - the free e-mail service with a difference! >www.indiainfo.com > > Check out our value-added Premium features, such as an extra 20MB for mail >storage, POP3, e-mail forwarding, and ads-free mailboxes! > > > > -- > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > > believed to be clean. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Thank You Shendage Pandurang Baburao Assistant Librarian Tolani Maritime Institute Induri, Talegaon Dabhade Pune 410507 Phone - (02114 ) 241870-73 Ext- 3401, 3402 Rec. 5272 Mobile- 9921314358 www.tolani.edu -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Application for Library Trainee
by Mallikarjun K 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Dear Moderator, Please post this information in the LIS-Forum. Thank you. Applications are invited from fresh BLIS OR MLIS.degree holders (Male Candidates Only) for Library Trainee (One Post) in the Knowledge Centre for Bangalore Management Academy. The selected candidates will be paid a consolidated stipend of *Rs.5,OOO/-p.m*. They may be required to work in shifts and on Sundays. Candidates should have good communication skills with the knowledge of Computer & Library Software will be given preference. Interested candidates are requested to send your detail bio-data with photographs by email to prakash(a)bmaindia.com. The last date for receiving the application is 30th April, 2008. The short listed candidates will be called for interview, the dates for which will be communicated later over the email. *Mr.Praksah I N* Manager-Knowledge Centre Bangalore Management Academy Thanks&regards, -- *Mallikarjun M Kappi* Asst.Librarian-Knowledge Centre #17, Ashirwad Towers, Doddanekkundi Cross, Mahadevapura Ring Road, Maratahalli Post, Bangalore - 560 037 E-mail: mkmallikarjun(a)gmail.com Mallikarjun(a)bmaindia.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Internet Resources Newsletter: Latest Issue
by MacLeod, Roderick A 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

____________________________________________ Internet Resources Newsletter ____________________________________________ The latest edition of the FREE monthly newsletter for academics, students and researchers is now available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn161/irn161.html No subscription or registration is needed to access this full-text newsletter at the above site. You can also subscribe to the free, full-text email version at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html An RSS feed for the newsletter is available: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss Featured in this issue: Comment Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS News items of interest A-Z New & Notable Web Sites: About 100 new and notable websites: new services, ejournals, directories, search engines, publishers, government sites, eResources, booksellers, calls for papers, software, news services, conferences, research groups, plus anything of interest, etc, etc. Nice Web Site(s): ScienceWatch.com Blogorama Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and related news items RSS feeds for Professional Society News in Engineering Book Review: Research methods in information, by Alison Jane Pickard Recent Internet books in the Library Get a life! Leisure Time After hours Published by Heriot-Watt University Library, and edited by Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod(a)hw.ac.uk) Catherine Ure and Marion Kennedy Blogging at: http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/ Heriot-Watt University is a Charity registered in Scotland, SC000278 -- Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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SMS searches on Google via mobile phones
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Do you know that you search google for products or sercices suppliers through mobile phone Try sending a text message (SMS) Old Age Homes Hyderabad to 466453 You will immediately get on your mobile. The advantage on searching on cell phone is that you can search and forward the reply to a friend. For instance I wanted the phone number of Ganshyam Supermarket for a friend. You can do an SMS based google search and forward the reply to the friend. Vyasamoorthy -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278 http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Message from DG of UNESCO on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day
by Mailing List Admin 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:30:54 +0100 (BST) From: Puna Das <puna_05(a)yahoo.co.in> Message from Mr Ko�chiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day 23 April 2008 Since 23 April 1996, World Book and Copyright Day has brought together millions of people in more than 100 countries in both the South and North in the solemn celebration of the many functions of the book in the life of human society. It has also invited them to reflect on the place of copyright in connection with books. In 2008, this event offers a new opportunity for political decision-makers, economic agents and those active in civil society to give pride of place, each in their own field, to this unique instrument of culture, education, participation, communication and entertainment � the book. Books contribute to shaping and maintaining the educational, cultural and economic fabric of our societies, and play multiple and fundamental roles in it. These works of the mind protected by copyright, which enrich the intangible heritage of humanity, are also merchandise, a duality that has been highlighted and analysed on many occasions. Books are thus the pivot in a vast chain of incomegenerating activities and professions, and an important component of economic development. The proclamation by the United Nations General Assembly of 2008 as International Year of Languages invites us moreover to reconsider another dimension of books which complements those mentioned above: the linguistic dimension of publishing. Books are in fact a means of expression which live through language and in language. Every book is written, produced, exchanged, used and appreciated in a specific linguistic framework. When selecting their language, authors are also selecting their readers, who should be able to understand what they write. Translation helps to build linguistic bridges leading to new books and new readers. When a language has no access to the world of publishing, it is excluded � together with those who speak it � from a significant part of the intellectual life and economic activity of society. Hence the importance of developing multilingualism through translation. At a time when the proclamation of International Year of Languages has brought the matter of languages and multilingualism to the top of the international agenda, it is more essential than ever to reflect on the future of books as vehicles for expression and linguistic recognition. In this context, it is then a matter of urgency to give languages broader access to publishing, so as to promote the exchange of books and editorial content, and thus �the free flow of ideas by word and image� enshrined in the Constitution of UNESCO. On this thirteenth World Book and Copyright Day, I solemnly call upon all the Member States, partners and friends of UNESCO to join us in reflection and action to ensure that the place of books and reading receives full recognition for the benefit of a world that can claim to be genuinely multilingual, even in practice. Source: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001571/157181e.pdf ; http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=42278&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION… See Also: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26397&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India

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